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The Register, 1977-01-21

The Register, 1977-01-21, page 1

THl4-.f7 REGISTER
"COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT"
VOLUME XLVffl NUMBER $1 NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY, GREENSBORO JANUARY 21, WTtX'
National Dignitaries
To Help Dedicate Lab
In Cherry Hall
A&T State University will
achieve another milestone
Tuesday, February 1, when ii
host of national dignitaries come
to the campus for the dedication
of a solid state engineering
research laboratory.
The unique research
laboratory, one of the three of
its kind in the nation, was
established by the university
with the assistance of a special
grant from the huge Rockwell
International Corporation of
Pittsburgh, Perm., and an initial
research funding grant from
NASA (National Aeronautics and
Space Administration).
In all, more than $400,000
will have gone into the readying
the ffasst phase of theftboratory,
located in Cherry Hall, home of
the School of Engineering.
On hand for the dedication
and ribbon cutting ceremonies
are expected to be Dr. William
Friday, president of the
University of North Carolina
system; Dr. Robert .Anderson,
president of Rockw.ell
International; Dr. James
Fletcher, administrator of
NASA; North Carolina
Congressman, L. Richardson
Preyer; members of the Black
Caucas and a host of state and
local governmental leaders.
The new laboratory grew out
of Rockwell International
interest in encouraging the entry
of more , minorities into non
• traditional fields of engineering
such.as solid state electronics.
Rockwell also hopes to
encourage more minority students
to seek advanced degrees in the
field of engineering.
A&T is also being assisted in
the new solid project by Cornell
University. The university's
initial research projects in solid
state electronics will be provided
by NASA, which has also
expressed a strong commitment
to the program.
The new laboratory will be
housed in A&Ts nationally
accredited School of
Engine erihg. The university
currently offers degrees in
mechanical, electrical and
architectural engineering and
engineering mathematics and
physics, and has been authorized
a new degree in - industrial
engineering.
Research in the new
laboratory will be conducted by
■faculty members and students of
the departments of engineering,
physics and chemistry.
A&Ts Student Memorial Union by night. staff Photo by Biu Lawson
Judge Halts Hal-Comptetd Ptan-
CHAPEL HILL (AP) North
Carolina's 1974 plan for
desegregating the university
system was more than halfway
toward achieving its stated goals
when it ran aground in the
federal courts, statistics show.
North Carolina's desegregation
plan and those of five other
southern states were rejected this
week by a federal judge in
Washington, who ruled that new
and more detailed plans would
.have to be submitted.
The state filed a plan in 1974
outlining plans and setting goals
for stepping up desegregation at
its 16 university-level institutions
over a four- year period.
In 1973, the nonblack
enrollment at the state's five
predominantly Black colleges
was 5.9 per cent. That figure
now is 8.8 per cent, or slightly
behind the target of 9.6 per cent
for this winter as stated in the
desegregation plan.
The nonblack enrollment at
those schools by the end of the
1977-78 school year is targeted
at 11.1 per cent, said John
Sanders, a vice president in the
university system.
The nonwhite enrollment at
the 11 predominantly white
institutions in 1973 was 3.7 per
cent.
This fall it was 5.6 per cent,
or well ahead of the fall 1976
target of 4.5 percent and alreday
ahead of the stated target for
1978, which is 5 per cent.
"In nearly every instance we
are at or ahead of that schedule,"
Sanders said of the existing
desegregation plan.
Sanders said it will not be
clear for a month or two exactly
what new steps the state must
take.
The state's 1974 plan was
accepted in 1974 by the federal
Department of Health education
and Welfare. But U.S. District
Court Judge John H. Pratt ruled
Monday that HEW let North
Carolina and five other states off
too easily.
Pratt gave HEW and the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
until March 1 to draft stiffer
requirements.
"Essentially, we will ask for
the plans to be far more specific
than they have been, assurances
that changes will be made and
timetables for the changes," said
attorney John Silard of the
NAACP, which filed the initial
lawsuit in 1970.
Construction Begins Soon
On New Science Building
Interstate 29 is a superslab of streaking lights in the night.
Staff Photo by Bill Lawson
Construction will get
underway in A&T State
University's North Campus next
week for a $2.8 million ultra
modern Physics and Physical
Science building.
Designed by Greensboro
architect, W. Edward Jenkins, an
A&T graduate, the new buUding
is being constructed by the
Marvin Wright and Company Inc.
of Greensboro.
The building will contain.
more than 64,000 square feet of
space to be used for classrooms
and offices for the departments*
of mathematics, physics and for
some classes in physical science
and chemistry.
Among the outstanding
features of the specially designed
(See Science, Page 8)

THl4-.f7 REGISTER
"COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT"
VOLUME XLVffl NUMBER $1 NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY, GREENSBORO JANUARY 21, WTtX'
National Dignitaries
To Help Dedicate Lab
In Cherry Hall
A&T State University will
achieve another milestone
Tuesday, February 1, when ii
host of national dignitaries come
to the campus for the dedication
of a solid state engineering
research laboratory.
The unique research
laboratory, one of the three of
its kind in the nation, was
established by the university
with the assistance of a special
grant from the huge Rockwell
International Corporation of
Pittsburgh, Perm., and an initial
research funding grant from
NASA (National Aeronautics and
Space Administration).
In all, more than $400,000
will have gone into the readying
the ffasst phase of theftboratory,
located in Cherry Hall, home of
the School of Engineering.
On hand for the dedication
and ribbon cutting ceremonies
are expected to be Dr. William
Friday, president of the
University of North Carolina
system; Dr. Robert .Anderson,
president of Rockw.ell
International; Dr. James
Fletcher, administrator of
NASA; North Carolina
Congressman, L. Richardson
Preyer; members of the Black
Caucas and a host of state and
local governmental leaders.
The new laboratory grew out
of Rockwell International
interest in encouraging the entry
of more , minorities into non
• traditional fields of engineering
such.as solid state electronics.
Rockwell also hopes to
encourage more minority students
to seek advanced degrees in the
field of engineering.
A&T is also being assisted in
the new solid project by Cornell
University. The university's
initial research projects in solid
state electronics will be provided
by NASA, which has also
expressed a strong commitment
to the program.
The new laboratory will be
housed in A&Ts nationally
accredited School of
Engine erihg. The university
currently offers degrees in
mechanical, electrical and
architectural engineering and
engineering mathematics and
physics, and has been authorized
a new degree in - industrial
engineering.
Research in the new
laboratory will be conducted by
■faculty members and students of
the departments of engineering,
physics and chemistry.
A&Ts Student Memorial Union by night. staff Photo by Biu Lawson
Judge Halts Hal-Comptetd Ptan-
CHAPEL HILL (AP) North
Carolina's 1974 plan for
desegregating the university
system was more than halfway
toward achieving its stated goals
when it ran aground in the
federal courts, statistics show.
North Carolina's desegregation
plan and those of five other
southern states were rejected this
week by a federal judge in
Washington, who ruled that new
and more detailed plans would
.have to be submitted.
The state filed a plan in 1974
outlining plans and setting goals
for stepping up desegregation at
its 16 university-level institutions
over a four- year period.
In 1973, the nonblack
enrollment at the state's five
predominantly Black colleges
was 5.9 per cent. That figure
now is 8.8 per cent, or slightly
behind the target of 9.6 per cent
for this winter as stated in the
desegregation plan.
The nonblack enrollment at
those schools by the end of the
1977-78 school year is targeted
at 11.1 per cent, said John
Sanders, a vice president in the
university system.
The nonwhite enrollment at
the 11 predominantly white
institutions in 1973 was 3.7 per
cent.
This fall it was 5.6 per cent,
or well ahead of the fall 1976
target of 4.5 percent and alreday
ahead of the stated target for
1978, which is 5 per cent.
"In nearly every instance we
are at or ahead of that schedule,"
Sanders said of the existing
desegregation plan.
Sanders said it will not be
clear for a month or two exactly
what new steps the state must
take.
The state's 1974 plan was
accepted in 1974 by the federal
Department of Health education
and Welfare. But U.S. District
Court Judge John H. Pratt ruled
Monday that HEW let North
Carolina and five other states off
too easily.
Pratt gave HEW and the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
until March 1 to draft stiffer
requirements.
"Essentially, we will ask for
the plans to be far more specific
than they have been, assurances
that changes will be made and
timetables for the changes," said
attorney John Silard of the
NAACP, which filed the initial
lawsuit in 1970.
Construction Begins Soon
On New Science Building
Interstate 29 is a superslab of streaking lights in the night.
Staff Photo by Bill Lawson
Construction will get
underway in A&T State
University's North Campus next
week for a $2.8 million ultra
modern Physics and Physical
Science building.
Designed by Greensboro
architect, W. Edward Jenkins, an
A&T graduate, the new buUding
is being constructed by the
Marvin Wright and Company Inc.
of Greensboro.
The building will contain.
more than 64,000 square feet of
space to be used for classrooms
and offices for the departments*
of mathematics, physics and for
some classes in physical science
and chemistry.
Among the outstanding
features of the specially designed
(See Science, Page 8)